Joel Adejola

writer · engineer · soccer scout/analyst · fashion model

I'm Joel Adejola — 22, Nigerian, building STATSWING, a research-led sports decision-intelligence institution focused on football. My background runs through investigative journalism at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting in Nigeria — where I covered the 2022 World Cup and broke the ₦2bn fire-fighting-equipment story at Abuja Stadium and voter-registration suppression ahead of the 2023 elections — an engineering internship at Texas Instruments, and several years of student government at the University of Kansas, where I study philosophy and physics. I write about football and recruitment at BallerzBantz and am preparing PingBack — the field notebook for the broader thesis. The thread through all of it: what makes a claim worth believing, and who decides. Reach me at joel@statswing.com.

Currently based in Lawrence, Kansas.

Projects

decision intelligenceSTATSWINGApplied football research, player assessment grades, and public intelligence surfaces for recruitment and football operations.researchgradesdashboardfootball registerBallerzBantzThe football intelligence thread: public analytics, scouting ideas, and the newsletter that became the STATSWING substrate.newsletteranalyticsscoutingfield notebookPingBackEssays on single-operator institution-building, epistemology, and the broader operating thesis behind the work.essaysoperatorsthesis

Modeling

Light on fabric, posture in motion.Runway and editorial work, led by clothes, line, and a little restraint.Instagram →
Black knit, blue denimRunwayBlack knit, blue denimview on Instagram →Brick light portraitEditorialBrick light portraitview on Instagram →KC runwayRunwayKC runwayview on Instagram →

Recent Notes

Apr 25via XWhat gets read changes when generation is trivialBefore, it was enough to consider any piece of writing across roughly two dimensions: what it said, and who wrote it.Apr 21noteThree things help with AI-orchestration burnoutAI agents create a new kind of burnout. The work no longer drains you through typing — it drains you through judgment. More attention. More context-swit...Apr 18via XSport is where new technology shows up firstIn the past two weeks, a human broke the marathon record in London, and a humanoid broke the half-marathon record in Beijing. It is increasingly the cas...

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